1 Look at the photos and read posts A–D on page 4. Decide which post is about:

• Free time?
• A Meal?
• A morning activity?
• A typical school day?

Answers:

2 C 3 A 4 B

2 Match sentences 1–2 with rules a–b.

1. ☐ In the US, students don’t go to school on Saturdays and Sundays.
2. ☐ We have dinner at 9.30 p.m.

1. We use the Present Simple to talk about a regular activity.
   b. We use the Present Simple to talk about a fact.

Answers:

1 b 2 a

3 Study the Grammar box and find more examples of the Present Simple in the text

Suggested answers

 we do exercise

 school starts

 I get up

 I have extra lessons

 I get home

 I know

 I do my homework

 We have dinner

 We eat at about 7 p.m.

I go to bed

 students don’t go to school

 we don’t get much homework

 I get to play more chess

 

4 Read the posts again and choose the correct words.

1. Lan-Fen goes / doesn’t go to a very big school.
2. Yuna starts / doesn’t start school at 6 a.m.
3. Rakan has / doesn’t have dinner at about 7 p.m.
4. Aiden plays / doesn’t play chess at the weekend.

Answers:

1 goes 2 doesn’t start 3 has 4 plays

5 SPEAKING In pairs, talk about how your life is different from the people’s in the posts.

Students’ own answers: اجابات الطلاب الخاصة

 

6 Complete the phrases with these words. Which activities are in the photos on page 4?

do – get – go – go to – have

1. go to school / work / bed
2. do exercise / homework / housework
3. have a shower / lessons / breakfast / lunch / dinner
4. go home / out with friends / shopping
5. get home / dressed / up

Answers:

2 do 3 have 4 go 5 get

 Activities in the photos: do exercise, get up, have dinner

 

7 1.2PRONUNCIATION Put the verbs from the box in the correct column. Listen and check your answers.

eats – goes – likes – lives – studies – watches

/s/	/z/	/ɪz/
starts	plays	teaches

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Answers:

/s/: eats, likes

 /z/: goes, lives, studies

 /ɪz/: watches

 

8 SPEAKING In pairs, talk about what you do on Saturdays. Then tell the class.

Students’ own answers: اجابات الطلاب الخاصة

 

1 ★ Choose the correct forms to complete the sentences.

1. Abbas get / gets up at 7 a.m.
2. I have / has breakfast every day.
3. We like / likes going to school.
4. My parents eat / eats pizza on Mondays.
5. You live / lives in Scotland.
6. Clare come / comes from Australia.

Answers:

1 gets 2 have 3 like 4 eat 5 live 6 comes

2 ★ Read what Fadia says and then complete the text about her with the correct forms of the Present Simple.

My name’s Fadia. I get up at 7 a.m. on weekdays and have a shower.
I get dressed and eat breakfast. I go to school at 8 a.m. and have lessons from 8.30 until 2.30 p.m. I get home at 3 p.m. and I do my homework. I sometimes watch TV or go out with my cousins.

 

This is Fadia. She

1. gets up at 7 a.m. on weekdays and
2. ________ a shower.
   She
3. ________ dressed and
4. ________ breakfast. She
5. ________ to school at 8 a.m. and
6. ________ lessons from 8.30 a.m. until 2.30 p.m. She
7. ________ home at 3 p.m. and she
8. ________ her homework. She sometimes
9. ________ TV or
10. ________ out with her cousins.

Answers:

2 has 3 gets 4 eats 5 goes 6 has 7 gets 8 does 9 watches 10 goes

3 ★ Choose the correct forms to complete the text.

Namrata and Rupa 1 _______ in a village called Thamo in Nepal. People come here to see the beautiful mountains, but for Namrata and Rupa, this is their home. Namrata 2 _______ at 6 a.m. and she 3 _______ her mother in the kitchen. They 4 _______ breakfast together. Rupa 5 _______ have breakfast. She 6 _______ with her father and their animals.

Namrata and Rupa 7 _______ to school in Namche, 5 km from their home. Sometimes they meet people from other countries on their way to school. Namrata likes to say hello, but Rupa 8 _______ English.

1. a) live b) lives
2. a) get up b) gets up
3. a) help b) helps
4. a) eat b) eats
5. a) don’t b) doesn’t
6. a) work b) works
7. a) go b) goes
8. a) speaks b) doesn’t speak

Answers:

1 a  2 b  3 b  4 a  5 b  6 b  7 a  8 b

4 ★★ Complete the sentences with the negative Present Simple forms of the verbs in brackets.

1. I like school, but I don’t like (like) cooking.
2. Samia has lunch, but she __________ (have) breakfast.
3. My friends go out on weekdays, but I __________ (go) out with them because I always have a lot of homework.
4. We have lessons on weekdays, but we __________ (have) lessons on Saturdays.
5. My parents speak English, but my dad __________ (speak) very good Spanish.
6. My mum comes from London, but she __________ (live) in London.

Answers:

2 doesn’t have 3 don’t go 4 don’t have 5 doesn’t speak 6 doesn’t live

5 ★★ Use the prompts to write sentences in the Present Simple.

1. Ghada / not have / lessons on Fridays. She / go out / with her family
2. My mum / be from Italy / but / I / not speak / Italian
3. I / go to / bed / at 9 o’clock on weekdays, but on Fridays / I / not go to / bed early
4. My sister / play tennis / on Saturdays / but I / not play / tennis
5. My parents / have breakfast / at 7 a.m., but I / not have / breakfast with them. I / get up / at 7.15

Answers:

1 Ghada doesn’t have lessons on Fridays. She goes out with

her family.

 2 My mum is from Italy but I don’t speak Italian.

 3 I go to bed at 9 o’clock on weekdays, but on Fridays I don’t

go to bed early.

 4 My sister plays tennis on Saturdays, but I don’t play tennis.

 5 My parents have breakfast at 7 a.m., but I don’t have

breakfast with them. I get up at 7.15.

6 ★★★ Complete the texts with the correct Present Simple forms of the verbs from the box.

come, get up, go, go (x3), have, know, like, not go, not like, not play, play (x2)

OUR ROUTINES

Ramzi ¹ goes shopping on Saturdays.
I stay at home. I ² ________ shopping because I ³ ________ shopping.

Muna ⁴ ________ to English classes on Sunday morning. She walks back home and ⁵ ________ lunch. Then she ⁶ ________ to the park and ⁷ ________ tennis.

We ⁸ ________ playing and watching sports. Yousuf ⁹ ________ football for the school team. I ¹⁰ ________ football, but I watch football.

My brother ¹¹ ________ very early on Sundays because he ¹² ________ to work at 7 a.m. He ¹³ ________ into my room and says: ‘Good morning!’
He ¹⁴ ________ that I want to sleep!

Answers

2 don’t go 3 don’t like 4 goes 5 has 6 goes 7 plays 8 like

9 plays 10 don’t play 11 gets up 13 comes 14 knows

7 Write five true sentences about your own daily routine using five different verbs from the lesson. Make at least two negative sentences.

Students’ own answers: اجابات الطلاب الخاصة